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Commissioning Surrey Healthwatch Update to the Health & Wellbeing Board 6 th September 2012.

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1 Commissioning Surrey Healthwatch Update to the Health & Wellbeing Board 6 th September 2012

2 Today’s presentation 1) Commissioning the new Healthwatch function Simon Laker (Surrey County Council) 2) Work to date Richard Davy (Surrey Independent Living Council) 3) Proposed next steps Simon Laker

3 Commissioning HealthWatch The Health & Social Care Act makes provision for a new consumer organisation called Healthwatch Healthwatch will replace LINkS Healthwatch will be commissioned by the County Council (in two-tier authorities) and must be a social enterprise Healthwatch may be developed in partnership with existing LINkS, partners/stakeholders via a process of co-design OR commissioned by tender The sole legal responsibility of the County Council is “to have a contract signed with a local Healthwatch organisation” by 1 st April 2013

4 Objectives To develop local Healthwatch arrangements which are: ▪Robust ▪ Representative ▪ Partnership based ▪ Accountable ▪ Deliverable ▪ Built upon Surrey LINkS skills, knowledge, experience and commitment ▪ Values and makes effective use of volunteers

5 Aims For Surrey Healthwatch to be the independent consumer champion for the people of Surrey and promote better outcomes in health and social care for all To be accountable to the full diversity of the community of Surrey To establish public trust through being responsive efficient and effective To work (where possible) in partnership with stakeholders and providers To become recognised as one of the best local Healthwatch organisations in the UK

6 Delivery (1) Surrey Healthwatch will: ▪Provide information and advice about accessing health and social care services and choice in relation to those services ▪ Promote and support the involvement of people in the monitoring, commissioning and provision of care services including Enter & View visits ▪ Obtain peoples views about their need for and experiences of care services and make those views widely known

7 Delivery (2) ▪Provide NHS independent complaints advocacy services (in partnership with a professional advocacy organisation) ▪ Represent the views of “consumers” at the Surrey Health and Wellbeing Board ▪ Make recommendations to Healthwatch England and CQC to carry out specific reviews or investigations ▪ Make peoples views and experiences known to Healthwatch England

8 Consultation & Engagement SILC as the LINk’s host developed a consultation and engagement plan This helped understand how Surrey Healthwatch should be developed and obtain views that represent all communities in Surrey This has informed Surrey County Council’s service specification We recognise Healthwatch will be very different to LINkS, we want to ensure it is set up in a way that is right for Surrey people Healthwatch needs to build upon LINks skills, knowledge, experience and commitment but also acknowledge where there have been challenges in the past

9 Next steps Developing the specification: Outline specification presented to Board today (Appendix 2) Council running series of events during Sept/Oct 2012 to co-design HealthWatch specification Final specification to be circulated to Health and Wellbeing Board by 4 th October and shared with LINkS The decision to proceed: SILC and LINkS to prepare a statement of readiness to deliver the specification by 14 th October On the basis of that statement the Council will either a) award LINkS the function by grant-in-aid funding to engage in a process of co-design to develop Surrey HealthWatch b) commence a full tender process for the HealthWatch contract

10 Next steps Legal standing and governance If LINkS are to become Healthwatch they will be supported by SILC to prepare articles and memorandum for incorporation as a new organisation and social enterprise LINkS will be required to detail against the new specification any work to be undertaken pre- and post- the contract award Key milestones from project plan 31 st October Cabinet member decision If Cabinet award LINks the function the co-design with SCC and partners will begin If they don’t then there will be an Invitation to Tender issues on 23 rd of November 23 rd March new contract signed 1 st April go live

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